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I also agree with this perspective from the UK.

One reason might be the strengthening dollar since the financial crisis.

(From 1 GBP being 2 USD in 2007, to 1.3 now. Likewise EUR was 1.6 in 2007, but 1.13 now).

That's potentially quite a big difference buying American goods vs European.

The death of HN has been lamented since at least 2007 (in addition to the cliche that it's turning into Reddit, mentioned in the guidelines).

So far, it hasn't died nor turned into Reddit.

Or just used earplugs. They can take some getting used to, but are worth it noisy disturbances are affecting your sleep.

If the goal was to have fun, that's great. If the goal was to solve a problem, I'm reminded of when engineers build over-engineered solutions, when a simple solution is available.

Except that Go is a simpler, smaller language than Java. That's one of the key points in the post.

Cool project!

Slight nitpick (in the spirit of HN): Looks like the search is case sensitive when I think HN usernames are not. Only realised when my phone capitalised the first letter and it returned no results, but worked after searching in lowercase.

Both - these are the two sides of the market, aka supply and demand.

It says "Our users are everywhere" and shows some logos for the companies these users are from.

If the users are from those companies, this is not lying.

If they added logos for companies their users are not from, it would be lying.

Adding a logo to your webpage has started to follow different patterns for the stage of the company.

Early stage companies show things like "people at X, Y, Z use our product!" (showing logos without permission), whilst later stage ones tend to show logos after asking for permission, and with more formal case studies.

They may not have asked for permission to show these logos, but that's not the same thing as lying.

In a similar vein, there's also "I'll revert back" as a more formal "I'll get back to you".

I've found writing docs and updating docs a great AI use-case.

In my experience documentation generation has a lower error rate than code generation, and the costs of errors are lower too.

I'm not really a big fan of AI agents writing features end-to-end, but I can definitely see them updating documentation alongside pull requests.

Super interesting, thank you very much for sharing your thoughts!

HN is still one of the few places on the internet to get such esoteric, expert and intellectually stimulating content. It's like an Island where the spirit of 'the old internet' still lives on.

It's not quite like other infectious diseases (e.g. COVID), in that transmission is dependent on mosquitos as a vector.

If they've sufficiently damaged the vector one tourist alone cannot bring it back - the disease vector would also need to come back.

I think that was written as a generic, illustrative example. That Example was also for healthtech, which OP is not.

Yes ex-Meta could imply non-technical, but OP is a CTO with a Stanford computer science degree. Their job title and skills are technical.

Am I missing something, or are HN readers assuming (incorrectly) the author is non-technical and looking for someone to build out their ideas?

From what I can see, the author is a CTO who is ex-meta and Stanford computer science. They look like a technical co-founder to me.

I know there's this annoying and widely prevalent persona of co-founder dater with only ideas, and no skills to build them, but this author doesn't seem to be that.